Official TBCS Folding Team

[Fuganater]

Finally got a new PSU for my wife's computer. Now I have her 560 Ti folding. Hopefully in the next week or 2 I'll finish my Honeycomb mod and have that folding too.

[Datech]

You guys want my help? I've got a Core2Quad and a GTS 250 right now, and I'll have an X6 and a 560Ti after Black Friday.

There are 750 posts in this thread, and I've never done folding before, so could someone point me in the direction of all the best info to make this work?

[Fuganater]

I'm using a beta client. Works wonders. Just download the version that fits your PC.

https://fah-web.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/wiki/BetaRelease

Ask questions if you have them here or PM me.

[Datech]

I'm using a beta client. Works wonders. Just download the version that fits your PC.

https://fah-web.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/wiki/BetaRelease

Ask questions if you have them here or PM me.

Thanks! Just got it running. Seems to be working just fine.

[Fuganater]

BUUUUUUUUUUUMP

So I just hit 6 mil points! :banana:

Where is everyone at now? I was told in the summer that people were "modding" so they wern't folding. Well its winter now.

[billygoat333]

I stopped folding because I started playing games, and forgot to turn the client back on. lol great excuse I know. OH and my laptop cord is starting to short out, so I stopped folding on that too. I'll be back on shortly.

[AmEv]

Linux folding is a nightmare.

That's why I stopped.
Until I get this figured out.....

[985323]

I'd love to get back to folding, But im still getting the run around from Gigabyte on my videocard

[TheMainMan]

I pay my own power now and just added a server that now adds to an already brutal bill. So I won't be folding before I move in August, sorry everyone.

[DynamoNED]

I'm still chugging along on my Phenom II X6 1055T and GTX 460 - My motherboard on my second folding machine decided to be finicky and stop showing all video, so it's on the bench (read: cardboard box) right now.

[AmEv]

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/awards/cached-certs/cert.AmEv.1095.jpg

Pure CPU folding....

[Fuganater]

hehe what is your GPU doing??

[AmEv]

Waiting for a power supply...

*shakes fist at post office for ridicuously long shipping*

[billygoat333]

got my lappy up and folding, not that great of PPD but at least it is something...

I need to get my i7 folding again. *sigh*

[Fuganater]

Folding again. I had to stop for a few days till my AC in the office got fixed.

[Fuganater]

Got my server running. i7 950 and a GTX 460SE are folding. Hopefully I can fill it up with some more 460's (can have 4 total).

[Fuganater]

Gonna hit 8 million points today!!!

[Aldersan]

Well seeing as I had been running into a problem for the last few months where if I left my pc sit idle for a while (20 or so minutes) the whole thing would freeze, I couldn't really fold.
But I updated my bios and did a fresh Windows 7 install and seemed to have fixed it, so I will get my folding going again tomorrow!

[Fuganater]

Good deal man. I wish we could get more people folding for us. It feels weird to be the majority folder now. Used to be x88x

[Neodymium]

Good deal man. I wish we could get more people folding for us. It feels weird to be the majority folder now. Used to be x88x
For those who are new to the concept or just wanting to get on TBCS Folding Team, what do they need to do? Is there a tut somewhere on the site they can refer to? BTW, congrats, Fuga :D

[AmEv]

Start at folding.stanford.edu.
Our team is 191053.



(Hate to admit it, but I accidentally put 985323 once as a team number....)

[Fuganater]

This is the client I use:
https://fah-web.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/wiki/BetaRelease
Just download and go.

Our team number: 191053

You can set the client up to either fold just CPU(single core)/SMP(Multi core) or just GPU or both. The more GPUs the more points!

[Neodymium]

Thanks guys! I'm building my little guy's rig which he wants just for minecraft :D P55 board with i5 650, 8GB RAM and Radeon HD4850 (not sure if this card is capable enough to do GPU folding...have to find out more) - if not, I am going to dig up my old GTX 216 and see if that works.
Here are the cards:
http://i1270.photobucket.com/albums/jj613/Ne0dymium_/GTX.jpg
http://i1270.photobucket.com/albums/jj613/Ne0dymium_/4850.jpg

[Aldersan]

I'm folding! :D

[slaveofconvention]

The 4850 probably wont do a lot - I ended up turning off my 4870 because it was taking more from my CPU score than it was adding - having said that, I had lots of issues and my folding is now limited to a couple of work computers which kinda sucks. I have had a 2600k @ 4.3Ghz running SMP for most of the last week but the customer is expecting his pc back this weekend heh - still was a 100k or so added to the score heh

[Neodymium]

Well I guess I will have to use the nvidia then...I will install the client once I finish building the rig...late next week, I think.

[Fuganater]

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/awards/cached-certs/cert.Fuganater.8018689.jpg

8 million points :banana:

[Stonerboy779]

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/awards/cached-certs/cert.Fuganater.8018689.jpg

8 million points :banana:

Congrats on the 8 mil.

Can't wait till summer is over and I can start folding on two 560s again.

[slaveofconvention]

Start at folding.stanford.edu.
Our team is 191053.



(Hate to admit it, but I accidentally put 985323 once as a team number....)

Makes two of us - I put in 191035 instead of 53 - course I racked up well over 100k before I noticed!!!!!

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=191035

Makes it even worse as no-one else ever folded a single point for this team lol

[AmEv]

Thanks for the beta client links!


Seriously, I'm glad they're getting better and having .RPMs and .DEBs available!

[Aldersan]

So, I've been having some issues with folding lately. For some reason, whenever my gpu finishes a work unit, it'll stop, and the client will log something about "sleeping" because of a failed unit or something like that, which is really weird because if I exit and start it back up, it'll do another unit just fine. I've double checked that the "one unit" selection is not selected, so that's not the issue.

I've tried both the Tracker v2 and the beta client you linked Fuga, but both of them do the same thing. Any ideas?

[Technochicken]

Finally got my imac up and folding again. For some reason, the current client would never get any WU's, so I had to switch to the beta client.

[AmEv]

AANNNDDD, the Linux client doesn't work.

[Fuganater]

So, I've been having some issues with folding lately. For some reason, whenever my gpu finishes a work unit, it'll stop, and the client will log something about "sleeping" because of a failed unit or something like that, which is really weird because if I exit and start it back up, it'll do another unit just fine. I've double checked that the "one unit" selection is not selected, so that's not the issue.

I've tried both the Tracker v2 and the beta client you linked Fuga, but both of them do the same thing. Any ideas?

Are your clients set to only do 1 unit then sleep? You would have to check the settings. Maybe clear out the programs and settings and try again?

[Aldersan]

Yeah that's the first thing I checked, and it wasn't selected, so I was confused. I'll play with it more tomorrow and see if I cant get a more detailed log of what's going on

[Fuganater]

Woohoo! 10 mil!

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/awards/cached-certs/cert.Fuganater.10034519.jpg

[slaveofconvention]

Dat dere be a lot of zeros!

[Outlaw]

Late to the party. Been folding for a few days. Upto 35th place now. Just wish I had better hardware to chug out some real points.

I am having a similar issue as Aldersan. My GPU's will finish then just sit on "successfully sent work information" or something like that until I restart them. I can't say I looked into why it was happening though. I am using the stanford gpu client non beta.

[AmEv]

Couldn't get folding in Linux working with the beta client. At all.

And GPU/SMP folding crashed the session in XP, causing weird artifacts. Worked perfectly on CPU, but not GPU.

[pcclan]

k back to folding for a bit
see how long I'll go this time

[pcclan]

i might be able to get one done but idk after that i got a bsod

[TLHarrell]

Joined.

[985323]

Finally got my GPU back from Gigabyte, Im back!

[Fuganater]

Sweet guys!! In a few weeks I will stop folding for 3 months because I will be traveling. It will be your time to catch up!!

[Fuganater]

Just ordered 4x GTX 460s. 2 from hardforums and 2 from ebay. My folding farm is coming together!

[985323]

Just ordered 4x GTX 460s. 2 from hardforums and 2 from ebay. My folding farm is coming together!

Woah, thats one serious folding farm!

[TLHarrell]

Can I borrow a couple of those GPUs while you're out of town?

[Fuganater]

Threw together a very ugly setup for folding.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a190/Fuganater987/IMG_00031.jpg

[Fuganater]

Woot! Had my first 100K+ PPD day! All by just adding a 2500K. Can't wait to see how much my PPD goes up with all the 460s

[Outlaw]

you sir can gth with your ridiculous points! lol

[Fuganater]

Here is a better picture of the last rig I made.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a190/Fuganater987/Folding/DSC01523.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a190/Fuganater987/Folding/DSC01525.jpg


I got another case to review so after I took pictures I decided to mod it.

I modded at 240 rad cutout into the top. I didn't have an extra 240 rad so I used a 360 and let it hang off. This actually works better for tube routing.
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a190/Fuganater987/Folding/DSC01526.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a190/Fuganater987/Folding/DSC01528.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a190/Fuganater987/Folding/DSC01529.jpg

All I need now is for all my GPUs to arrive...

[Cale_Hagan]

Just ordered 4x GTX 460s. 2 from hardforums and 2 from ebay. My folding farm is coming together!

how much? :eek:

[Fuganater]

I got 3 for $80, 1 for $86 and 1 for $91 after shipping for all.

[Fuganater]

Well this is my last week folding for quite a while. :mad: I have to travel for work then I have R&R. I'll be back folding at the end of June.


LET THE CATCHUP BEGIN! :banana:

[Outlaw]

haha... right. GL and have fun.

[985323]

Have fun!
Muwahaha

I'll gladly hold your rank on Extreme overclocking while your gone XP

[AmEv]

Tried to put the F@H client on my XP install. Ended up with crashed driver and reboot needed.

Cue NOW:
http://ubuntuone.com/5wosaVcvGzmM5KzUKxLHg6


*I sure hope that smell's the steak in the oven :whistler:

[AmEv]

AANNNNDDDD....


I had to uninstall the client as it was causing a kernel panic after about 10 minutes from bootup.

[985323]

I had a temp spike and one of my videos cards temporarily stop working , but got everything shut down before damage occurred, I think im done with folding for the time being

[AmEv]

Anyone know where the Linux FAH beta client log is stored?
And how to get FAHControl working?

[Fuganater]

Well back to folding!

[Fuganater]

Sorry to say guys I'm jumping ship. I'm the only one folding for us so I'm gonna help out another team for awhile. If people ever start back up, I'll come back.

[pcclan]

started to fold again to test my new pc and man is it powerful. didn't think i would have over 200,000 in a single day from one computer.

[OvRiDe]

Nice! What a difference 5 years can make. Our whole team combined is only sitting at 132,000ish...

[AmEv]

Thanks for reminding me for my "new" machine!

http://i.imgur.com/VQVYOUy.png

I know it's not much, but it should help!

GPU is a 1080Ti, BTW.

Edit: I'm almost up to 200k on my one computer... I need to set it up on my brother's RX 470 machine.

[pcclan]

man nice score.
I am jelly of the 1080ti that, all i have is a gtx 1060 for the gpu in my rig

http://i.imgur.com/Rr3wnc4.png

[AmEv]

...did I say 1080TI? I mixed up my brother's GPU and mine. He has a 1080, I have a 1050Ti.

Sorry! X(

[pcclan]

ah well the 1050ti is still a great card, what brand is it ?
and what team are you folding for ?

[AmEv]

EVGA 1050Ti.

Was folding for one of the "wrong" TBCS team; fixed it before I finished the batch!

The computer itself was the computer I helped my brother build 3.5 years ago; original GPU was an XFX 7850. (As an aside, the 7850 replaced the 550 Ti that was in my brother's computer. TGS should remember that 550 Ti.